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DJ Snake: Spectaculaire 2017

Innovative and cutting edge French artist/music producer DJ Snake rocked the Paris Zenith with an incendiary set and a spectacular new visual design by Romain Pissenem of creative production company High Scream, utilizing a lighting rig of nearly 200 Robe moving lights including 64 of the new Spiider LED wash beams, 80 x Spikies, 32 x Pointes and 11 x BMFL Wash Beams. Lighting was programmed and directed by UK based Rob Lister who has worked as DJ Snake’s LD for the last year and has a long-standing working relationship with Romain and High Scream from visiting Ushuaia Ibiza with DJs Axwell & Ingrosso, for which Romain is also the production/show director.

Tickets for this landmark Paris show by the hugely popular and proudly French electronic music guru sold out almost immediately so the pressure was on for all to produce a truly amazing visual and sonic experience explained Romain. Coming from a theatrical background, Romain started directing shows when he was just 17 and is every bit as passionate and enthusiastic about creating ‘bigger picture’ audience experiences as he was 21 years ago. He loves both the drama of theatre as well as the energy of dance music and parties, and the essence of all his show designs is born from the desire to unite these two elements in collaboration with a team of talented and like-minded people who can really bring a space to life.

“For this design we needed a video presence, but I really wanted the stage to have a strong lighting base,” he says “to use video in a more subtle and understated way and for lighting to have a very powerful presence”. Fundamental to the idea was that the whole aesthetic was meaningful with a sense of finesse that blended some classical disciplines from theatre presentation with the heartbeat of dance music and clubbing. Having used Robe products on numerous shows over the years - Romain jumped at the chance to try out these latest technologies - and was delighted when rental company S Group, lighting supplier for the Zenith gig, boosted their Robe stock with additional Spikies for the event.

One of Romain’s inspirations for this show was wanting to bring a super-powerful lightsource onstage … and you can’t get anything more astronomically awesome than the sun. This spawned the 6 metre diameter circular truss made up of four concentric rings populated with the 64 Spiiders! It was rigged on an automation system enabling it to fly in and out and, tilt and pitch above the elliptical shaped DJ booth.

32 x Pointes were scattered around the rig and used for all the major beam technology and effects looks. DJ Snake’s set embraces a wide range of styles and genres from trap to electro, hip hop to pop and so there is plenty of opportunity for imaginative lighting and visuals. The first half is full-on fast-and-furious with his more commercial hits coming at the end, so the pace of the show shifts radically over the 90 minutes. Only three colours were used – red, blue and white – for the French flag – a simple approach with a host of looks and tricks revealed frenetically at the top of the set, with some epic surprises held back to keep the WOW moments coming right to the end.

Ahead of the gig, Romain, Rob and the High Scream production team which included technical manager Bertrand de Saint Pern were able to schedule some rare rehearsal time with the artist during two days of full production rehearsals in Briare, south of Paris. This is where the Zenith show was programmed and they also integrated exciting and inventive new video footage commissioned and produced by Comix from London and operated by Daniel Purdue. Rob’s cues were executed with such precision and accuracy that it could have been timecoded - but it was all totally live.

The result was a stunning and memorable ‘homecoming’ show for proud Parisian DJ Snake who had circumvented the globe several times playing hundreds of shows since his last appearance in Paris.
He will continue touring worldwide through 2017.

Fotos: Roberto Castano


Tour Dates

15.04.2017 Coachella, Indio, USA
22.04.2017 Coachella, Indio, USA
23.04.2017 Something Wonderful, Fort Worth, USA
11.05.2017 Brixton Academy, London, UJ
12.05.2017 Afas Live, Amsterdam, Netherlands
21.05.2017 Hangout Festival, Gulf Shores, USA
01.07.2017 Electric Forest, Grant, USA
08.07.2017 Electric Love Festival, Plainfield, Austria

 

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